U.S. Attorney John Walsh said today evidence that medical marijuana is having a detrimental impact on Colorado kids spurred his decision to crack down on dispensaries near schools. In his first extended comments about his policy toward medical marijuana, Walsh said state law plays a part in deciding how to use his prosecutorial discretion with medical-marijuana businesses, which are aut...

If kids are getting their hands on MMJ, they are NOT getting directly from the dispensaries which are required film ALL transactions and check regitry cards EVERY TIME. You know, those laws that were put into place and required a substantial investment by dispensary owners ??? Why not check the video of the dispensariesnear the schools and actually SEE who is purchasing the MMJ before they start shutting down businesses that are complying with the law.You might even CATCH some scumbag who is reselling to the kids, but make no mistake there are no high-schoolers shopping inthe dispensaries.

These dispensaries opened LEGALLY with the distance from the school determined by the local municipality.

So Walsh knows better that the local cummunity ? He gets to inflict financial hardship based on his OPINION ?? AND HE WORKS FOR US ???????

Is there even 1 example of a child getting medical marijuana directly from a Center of a grow? Can the liquor industry say that? Isn't this about kids getting it from, or stealing it from, their parents? How are distance restrictions going to help with this issue? Do we blame liquor stores when kids steal liquor from their parents liquor cabinet? This issue appears to be about parenting not the medical marijuana industry.

Earth to humans, Earth to humans!!!!!!Do you really think that a dispensary 1001 feet from a school in lieu of 999 feet really makes one Iota of difference?It really is scary that people are this stupid.Protect the children????????I am sick of protecting the children, they are responsible for most the things you are trying to protect them against.Are you ever going to wake up and see that or are we going to continue to coddle the kids in our fairy tale?Is there anybody out there in touch with the real world?Hello!! Hello?? open your eyes and your minds and pay attention!Stop blaming all the problems on the adults!The "kids" are not exactly The Brady Bunch in case you haven't noticed.

If the goverment was really concerned about kids and their safety why do they allow toasters in the school. These dangerous appliances have killed more people in the last year than MMJ has in all of history!

Here is the thing, there is a mairhuana store in my neighborhood,across the street is a nice park,and across the park is an elementary school,since this marihuana store opened next to this nice family friendly convenience store,a bunch of young people gather out there,graffity,trash,and what looks like drug dealings going on,not good for the younger kids walking to the store or to the park, I say locate this MARIHUANA stores as far away from schools,parks and other places where kids are not around, if the owners don't like it, close shop and go somewhere else ( california,arizona, or whatever ) a lot of us would like our neighborhood safe and DRUGS FREE,also, I'd like to know who own this marihuana store in the chaffee park neighborhood.

Here is the thing, there is a mairhuana store in my neighborhood,across the street is a nice park,and across the park is an elementary school,since this marihuana store opened next to this nice family friendly convenience store,a bunch of young people gather out there,graffity,trash,and what looks like drug dealings going on,not good for the younger kids walking to the store or to the park, I say locate this MARIHUANA stores as far away from schools,parks and other places where kids are not around, if the owners don't like it, close shop and go somewhere else ( california,arizona, or whatever ) a lot of us would like our neighborhood safe and DRUGS FREE,also, I'd like to know who own this marihuana store in the chaffee park neighborhood.

Amazing how these potheads and marihuana store owners making all kinds of excuses !! I bet half of them are not even "sick", they are going to such extremes as to not even care for these kids !! Think about it, if you can still think at all !!

liptongt wrote:Amazing how these potheads and marihuana store owners making all kinds of excuses !! I bet half of them are not even "sick", they are going to such extremes as to not even care for these kids !! Think about it, if you can still think at all !!

Non-sensical statements like this don't do the anti-freedom crowd any good dude.

What I can't figure out is where in Federal code does it say that MMJ dispensaries are not allowed w/in 1000ft of a school? Does this mean that the DEA &amp; Treasury will stop harrassing dispensaries which are outside this 1000ft bubble? And where did they get 1000ft? FPA? Why not 500ft? Why not 1mi?

liptongt wrote:Here is the thing, there is a mairhuana store in my neighborhood,across the street is a nice park,and across the park is an elementary school,since this marihuana store opened next to this nice family friendly convenience store,a bunch of young people gather out there,graffity,trash,and what looks like drug dealings going on,not good for the younger kids walking to the store or to the park, I say locate this MARIHUANA stores as far away from schools,parks and other places where kids are not around, if the owners don't like it, close shop and go somewhere else ( california,arizona, or whatever ) a lot of us would like our neighborhood safe and DRUGS FREE,also, I'd like to know who own this marihuana store in the chaffee park neighborhood.

Why do you want the federal government to deal with zoning issues?Where is the dispensary/park/elementary you are talking about?

liptongt wrote:Amazing how these potheads and marihuana store owners making all kinds of excuses !! I bet half of them are not even "sick", they are going to such extremes as to not even care for these kids !! Think about it, if you can still think at all !!

Non-sensical statements like this don't do the anti-freedom crowd any good dude.

Good one.. If you're going to bash the marijuana users about skipping school etc. at least learn how to spell it. You can cheat and look in the article, it's in there about 10 times.

Still trying to figure out how closing down dispensarys is supposed to stop kids from buying marijuana from card holders... I guess if this is the twilight zone it might work, don't know about planet earth.

Lets just cut the crap, this has nothing to do with the imaginary (where is it written again) 1000 foot buffer zone. Its simply a continuation of the same policy that has always been there, stir up trouble, make a scene, act like there's a riot going on, and above all attack medical marijuana however you can. Its the same in California, crime is down, fatal car accidents are down, teen drinking is down, the sky hasn't fallen, little old ladies haven't fallen victim to the evil weed, there aren'to gangs of psychotic people terrorizing neighborhoods, none of that retarded nonsense the people were "warning" us all about has come to pass. Its just more of the same incoherent complaints followed by even more incoherent "solutions". Walsh has the IQ of a lab rat.

spstools wrote:What I can't figure out is where in Federal code does it say that MMJ dispensaries are not allowed w/in 1000ft of a school? Does this mean that the DEA &amp; Treasury will stop harrassing dispensaries which are outside this 1000ft bubble? And where did they get 1000ft? FPA? Why not 500ft? Why not 1mi?

Maybe they got the 1000 feet as some kind of person government official's compromise to the metric system. They'll probably start making "Reefer Madness" required viewing for 4th graders.